Is Yosemite now "safe" for most of us?

Yes, the bugs have been well and truly worked out.
Worked around, more precisely.

There are still bugs in Yosemite's handling of environment variables, 
and R >= 3.1.2 has workarounds that resolve some of those.  But they can 
still bite when building R or installing packages.

I have found that

unsetenv FOO
setenv FOO value

resolved the issues I had.  (csh syntax, works in bash too.)

If you upgrade to Yosemite, do ensure that you have read the current 
R-admin manual and re-install the software it recommends.  We have found 
that what needed to be reinstalled varied between nominally identical 
systems ... 
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-devel/R-admin.html#OS-X .
Hadley

On Thursday, December 25, 2014, Ralph O'Brien <obrienralph at gmail.com> wrote:

The missives about running R/Rstudio under Yosemite seem to have died down.

For the vast majority of us who are "vanilla" uses of the current versions
of R and Rstudio, is Yosemite (10.10.current) now as safe as Mavericks
(10.9.current)?

I'm hoping a single short response from one of the R-on-Mac leaders will
give me (and thousands more) either a green or red light at this point.

Thanks for all the great work you do.

Ralph O'Brien, PhD
Retired Professor of Biostatistics
Case Western Reserve University
(but still keenly professionally active)
910.553.4224; Cell: 216.312.3203

*?Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I
learn.?*

         *? Benjamin Franklin*

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Is Yosemite now "safe" for most of us?

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